From socialist Solidarity to neo-populist neoliberalisation? The paradoxes of Poland's post-communist transition

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ID3832924
AutoresStuart Shield (0000-0003-4092-6070, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Volume31
Fascículo3
Páginas159-178
Data de publicação2007-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCapital & Class (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0309-8168 • E-ISSN: 2041-0980
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/030981680709300110
OpenAlexW2038466834
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas43

This paper interrogates the current neo-populist turn in Poland. The Kaczynski government contains a disparate group of ideological positions with a shared antagonism to the preceding neoliberal and post-Solidarity political mainstream. With Poland in the vanguard of neoliberal post-communist transition, the paper sets out to consider whether recent events signal a clear and decisive rejection of neoliberalisation despite the absence of a serious left alternative. It argues that the former Solidarity opposition and state-socialist social forces have been co-opted into reproducing neoliberalism, while the neo-populists, although rhetorically radical, have instead contributed to the reinforcement of neoliberalisation

Coalition government · Communism · Economic system · Economics · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · Solidarity · Technocracy · Vanguard · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition